Golden Mile complex
Singapore film makers OGS put together an hour long documentary covering the last days of the Golden Mile complex. It was a mixed use development similar to the Cityplaza development that I lived in Hong Kong. The upper levels were apartments, above a shopping centre beneath. The complex was a fantastic brutalist design that served as a hub for the Thai expat community in Singapore. While the site will be redeveloped, rebuilding the community centred around the Golden Mile will be much harder to do.
Google Docs
Tim O’Reilly pulls together through this interview the best oral history that I have heard of Google Docs. O’Reilly was the right person to do the interview, given how he was at the centre of web 2.0 hosting the conference on the scene and even publishing the books that provided guidance to the relevant developer tools and programming languages.
Toyota Series 60 Land Cruiser
This is from a great Japanese YouTube channel that interviews local car owners, asking them about the vehicle that they drive, why they drive it and what they like about it. The test drives and details in each of the vehicles is amazing. This episode is about the Series 60 Toyota Land Cruiser. The vehicle is the point at which Toyota moves from small Jeep-like vehicles to a highly reliable but full-size SUV.
Hentai Land
A Japanese documentary showing the interface between cosplay and the manga art form. The documentary shows manga artists painting models as a form of performance art.
Play School
The BBC told the back story of Play School from the actors to the educational theory behind the seminal British children’s TV programme. It ran from 1964 to 1988. It went on to influence other shows like RTÉ’s Bosco.
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